Re: [Boost-users] Binary (non-character-based) file iterators

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 8:08 PM, Jason Felice wrote:

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:41 PM, Scott McMurray wrote:

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2009/12/21 Jason Felice :

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I'm looking for binary (value_type = unsigned char) input and output iterators for files.  This is as opposed to a character base iterator (which rules out ostream_iterator<>).

If you can accept char instead of unsigned char, then use the standard streambuf iterators, istreambuf_iterator and ostreambuf_iterator.

Can I rely on there being no character set or line ending translation for an istream_iterator<char>, even with ios::binary?  I thought not.

The answer appears to be "yes". After much research, the codecvt locale facet is specialized to do nothing, so no character set conversion will occur for narrow versions of the stream, regardless of locale. (ios::binary is required, of course).